Quotes May 4

We have many pupils who can tell you that you can choose your own gender but they struggle to spell 'gender'! - David Robertson https://theweeflea.com/2019/05/02/scotlands-future-the-hope-history-hubris-humiliation-and-hypocrisy-of-nicola-sturgeon/

Everyone was to attend church on Sundays and holy days , under penalty of 12d(5p )fines  for each absence, - Act of Uniformity of Elizabeth 1, in - Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers,p.433

The fact of progress is obvious. The life expectancy of an Indian peasant, for example, now exceeds by far that of a member of the British royal family the apogee of British power.- Theodore Dalrmple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.ix